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bee on a wall
October 4, 2022
Bees & Honey: Translating Sappho
Features

August 27, 2022
“Radiant lyre speak me / become a voice”: Revising With Our Ancestors
Features

June 25, 2022
terra venenum: An Art & Poetry Conversation with Kel Mur
Features, Interviews

May 5, 2022
Once Upon a Remix
Features

January 19, 2022
Some Notes on "Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics"
Features
Tiana Nobile and the cover of her book Cleave
November 19, 2021
Shifting the Paradigm: An Interview with Tiana Nobile on "Cleave"
Interviews
drawing of various types of birds on beige paper
September 17, 2021
There is No One Way to be a Human or a Bird: An Interview with Amie Whittemore
Interviews

August 14, 2021
The Rural Speculative in Verse
Features
trees, with evergreens to the left and trees with yellow leaves to the right
July 2, 2021
Ecology, Ars Poetica, & the Erotic
Features
paper boat on water
May 15, 2021
Seeking Joy
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sunflower bouquet in a vase against a newspaper background
April 17, 2021
“Grief Scatters”: The Poetics of Loss Without Elegy
Features
brown cattails in the foreground of a natural landscape featuring a river and rolling hills
February 27, 2021
Placing Queerness in the Natural World: Minnie Bruce Pratt’s "Crime Against Nature"
Features

December 21, 2020
Finding Strength in "The Bull-Jean Stories"
Features
A person holds their pointer finger up to their lips as if to shush someone. Greyscale.
September 25, 2020
In Praise of Silence: Camille Dungy’s “Language”
Features

September 2, 2020
Towards Being Together: To Those Who Were Our First Gods
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